海边的贝壳

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海边的贝壳 “我好像是在海上玩耍，时而发现了一个光滑的石子儿， 时而发现了一个美丽贝壳而为之高兴的孩子。 尽管如此，那真理的海洋还是神秘地展现在我们面前。” ――伊萨克・牛顿 <<<瓦尔登湖（五） | 首页 | 维基百科：互动的乌托邦？>>> 瓦尔登湖（六） mountain @ 2003-10-25 Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them. Their fingers, from excessive toil, are too clumsy and tremble too much for that. Actually, the laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day; he cannot afford to sustain the manliest relations to men; his labor would be depreciated in the market. He has no time to be anything but a machine. How can he remember well his ignorance―which his growth requires―who has so often to use his knowledge? We should feed and clothe him gratuitously sometimes, and recruit him with our cordials, before we judge of him. The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly. 大多数人，即使是在这个比较自由的国土上的人们，也仅仅因为无知和错误，满载着虚构的忧虑，忙不完的粗活，却不能采集生命的美果。操劳过度，使他们的手指粗笨了，颤抖得又太厉害，不适用于采集了。真的，劳动的人，一天又一天，找不到空闲来使得自己真正地完整无损；他无法保持人与人间最勇毅的关系；他的劳动，一到市场上，总是跌价。除了做一架机器之外，他没时间来做别的。他怎能记得他是无知的呢――他是全靠他的无知而活下来的――他不经常绞尽脑汁吗？在评说他们之前，我们先要免费地使他穿暖、吃饱，并用我们的兴奋剂使他恢复健康。我们天性中最优美的品格，好比果实上的粉霜一样，是只能轻手轻脚，才得保全的。然而，人与人之间就是没有能如此温柔地相处。 生词：factitious，superfluously，plucked，toil，clumsy，integrity，ignorance，cordial 引用(0) 评论 XML blogger del.icio.us furl.net Wikipedia 发表评论 最后更新 煎饼 探索Wiki Wiki资料：自由百科制造者 维基百科Wiki新写法―主题首页 发现了一个好站点 《锐思评论》关于中立观点是否适用于BBS的讨论 累坏了 国内比较早的几个Wiki 台湾的Wiki资料 Wiki资料：大家都来玩wiki <<<瓦尔登湖（五） | 首页 | 维基百科：互动的乌托邦？>>>